Norman Tyler is a licensed architect, city planner, and historian who became a professor, serving for many years as director of the Urban Planning Program at Eastern Michigan University. As a professor, he shared his expertise through teaching, conference presentations, published articles, a personal writer's blog, podcast interviews, as executive producer of a feature film, and through coverage by the Associated Press, and now has emeritus status.

Norm writes history as storytelling, bringing to life both people and places. He has authored books on historic architecture, urban planning, transportation pioneers, and family stories. He has spent time in Europe, Africa, South and Central America, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, bringing a global focus to his writing. He lives in a historic house in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife and two cats and now writes full-time, always enjoying the challenge of a new project.